Editorial

摘要

Welcome to the last issue of our 25th Anniversary volume, a further milestone in the development of IMR. We are delighted that this year has seen our Thomson Scientific/ISI impact factor rise once again (to 0.508) and we are confident that this will continue to improve over the coming year and into the future. We have celebrated our 25th birthday in a number of ways this year. We were pleased that many of you were able to attend our reception at AIB's 50th Anniversary at Bocconi University in Milan in July. We were also pleased to give an award for the best paper on an international marketing topic at this conference. Congratulations to Oscar Martin Martin and Julio Cervino Fernandez for their paper, "Exploring the determinants of brand country of origin recognition". Similar awards will also be presented at EIBA and ANZMAC in December. Finally, with the launch this year of Emerald Backfiles (the digitization by the British Library of our back archives) this year, readers can now get online access to all 25 volumes of IMR content. And, of course, we established Manuscript Central as our on-line system for managing the systems and processes of submission and review for IMR. Although there have inevitably been minor teething problems, we are sure this system will continue to allow us to offer an enhanced and easily accessible service to our authors and reviewers.